Important Senate Vote Thursday

Jennifer Popik, JD, Federal Legislative Director of National Right to Life, sends along this alert about a funding vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.

You can view the House roll call here. This resolution would use the Congressional Review Act to nullify an 11th hour Obama Administration rule designed to prevent states from redirecting Title X funds away from unsuitable organizations such as Planned Parenthood. NRLC intends to include the roll call on final passage of H. J. Res. 43 in our scorecard of key right-to-life votes of the 115th Congress.

To view NRLC's March 28th letter to the Senate in support of the resolution, click here.

This issue is separate and distinct from any Federal effort to defund Planned Parenthood.

In recent years, several states receiving Title X family planning grants have opted to direct those funds to county health departments, community health centers, or other types of providers, in preference to organizations engaged in objectionable activities, such as Planned Parenthood, a mega-marketer of abortion that has also been involved in fetal organ trafficking. Title X is a federal grant program dedicated to providing individuals with family planning services. H.J. Res. 43, if passed by the Senate and signed by the President, would mean that states, if they chose, could continue to attempt to redirect Title X funds away from objectionable organizations.